Connected

Trains connect places: major cities; small towns; rural villages, allowing people to travel between these places. A common theme I see on the trains is that people want to be connected. Connected not only by the rail network, but by the internet and mobile networks. I see so many people passing the commuting time on their phones. Emailing, texting, browsing the web, chatting on Facebook and just generally keeping in touch.

It's good for me, because people don't bat an eyelid when they see me holding my phone up in front of them, there's so many others doing it too.....

I can even get away with twisting about in my seat to get that perfect picture

They are usually so engrossed in what they are doing it's like I (and all the other commuters) are invisible. They are in their own little mobile world

This is something I can use to my advantage and get a really close beautiful shot, I can take my time to wait until the moving light is perfect, capture that unexpected smile as they read something funny

And there's just so many people on phones that it doesn't take long for me to get plenty of photos - I can already sense a second post about the connected commuters

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The Extended Office

It seems in these hard economic times our employers want more and more out of us so that they don't have to employ more people. I often see people working on the train, either on laptops or with notebooks out furiously scribbling away.





Indeed I am often guilty of this too. I regularly sort out my emails or finish off a document I'm working on the train. And why not? It's dead time anyway. I have a 40 minute journey each way. Outlook is always telling me my mailbox is almost full so I have over an hour of uninterrupted filing time. But should I do this day in, day out? I already do my contracted 37.5 hours in the office, there just isn't enough hours in the week to get everything I'm supposed to be doing done!


I wonder if all these other 'Train Workers' feel the same? Some probably enjoy it, uninterrupted time to release the stress a bit, some may claim the time back, finishing early or getting overtime. I guess some people are just workaholics.




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